Communist Party of Lithuania

The Communist Party of Lithuania (LKP) was a communist party that existed in Lithuania from 1918 to 1991. The party worked illegally until 1940, when the Soviet Union took over the Baltics and installed the LKP as the new ruling party, affiliated with the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The party would remain in power until the Singing Revolution of 1989, when Lithuania declared its independence from the USSR. The Democratic Labor Party of Lithuania succeeded the LKP, which was banned.